Dr. Gagnier did her postdoctoral work in the Dept. of Psychology at Temple University with Dr. Thomas Shipley and was a member of the Research in Spatial Cognition, a SILC lab. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Delaware under the mentorship of Dr. Helene Intraub. Prior to graduate school she worked with Drs. Jeremy Wolfe and Todd Horowitz at Visual Attention Laboratory at Harvard Medical School.